Hi Alex, I realize I'll probably have my work cut out getting everything working as it should, but it would be helpful at least understanding the design intent.
So, if you could try to jog some memories on this, that would be great! Either way, I should be giving TLF tables a real workout over the next couple of months, so by the time I'm done with it, it should be at the point of "officially being supported"… ;-) Harbs On Sep 10, 2013, at 7:17 PM, Alex Harui wrote: > Hi Harbs, > > I see code for Tables, but I'm not sure it is "officially" there. Or even > complete, or even working at a prototype-level. > > So good luck with it. I might be able to ask folks who used to work on it > a few questions, but I'm pretty sure their memories of it are pretty dim > by now. > > -Alex > > On 9/10/13 6:16 AM, "Harbs" <harbs.li...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I knew I was going to spend some real time on this one day, and that time >> is coming really soonŠ >> >> Before I dig in too deeply, what's the status on TLF Table support? I >> know it's officially there, but I don't see any documentation on it -- >> not even the basics on how it's supposed to be used. >> >> I fully expect to find bugs once I start really digging into it, but some >> documentation (any) would be nice to get me started. >> >> Looking at the source code, I see the following classes: >> >> TableElement >> TableBodyElement >> TableColElement >> TableRowElement >> TableColGroupElement >> TableDataCellElement >> TableFormattedElement >> >> I understand the structure like this: >> >> * A TableElement is the top level element for any table >> * All elements in a table inherit from TableFormattedElement >> * The bottom level of a table which needs to contain one or more >> ParagraphElements in a TableDataCellElement >> * TableDataCellElements must reside within a TableRowElement >> >> After this things get a bit fuzzier. >> >> What is TableBodyElement used for? >> How is TableColGroupElement and TableColElement used? (I assume they are >> used for formatting table columns, but the details are not very clear to >> me.) >> What about header and footer rows? Is that supported yet? >> Header and footer columns? >> Is breaking tables across containers supported yet? >> >> I have not started studying how to specify table formatting either. I'm >> hoping that's obviousŠ >> >> I'll try to add some documentation to the source code as things become >> clearer to meŠ >> >> Harbs >
